Rose Holley: Trove Manager

Resource Sharing and Innovation

National Library of Australia

ALIA Conference, Brisbane

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Trove: More than a treasure?

How finding information just became easier

rholley@nla.gov.au

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NLA Strategic Directions 2009-2011

“We will explore new models for creating and sharing information and for collecting materials, including supporting the creation of knowledge by our users. “

“The changing expectations of users that they will not be passive receivers of information, but rather contributors and participants in information services.”

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Content sources

Australian Collaborative Services

• ANBD – 1000 libraries• Pandora - websites• ARO - Research• RAAM - Archives• Picture Australia• Australian Newspapers

Open sources• Open Library (Internet

Archive)• Hathi Trust• OAISTER

Targets – websites•Amazon•Wikipedia•Google Books/Videos•Flickr

90 million items

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Methods of data collection

• Libraries• Galleries• Museums• Archives

(Deep web hidden in collection databases…)

• Open Archives Initiative (OAI)

• Application Programmers Interface (API)

• FTP/HTTP• Sitemaps

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IT Development

The ‘art of with’ Charles Leadbeater

Not to peopleNot for people

WITH PEOPLE (USERS)

Public feedback drives the development:CRITICAL, RELEVANT, INTERESTING

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browse

groups/

zones

Single search

Restrict

search

8Refine/limit search results

groups/zones results

Get item

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Grouping of versions

Get options

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Buy

Add tag

Add comment

merge/split versions and works if incorrect

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person information

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minimise

expand

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Minimised zones

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Context – Tools - Lists

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Burke and Wills List

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User generated content

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37255844 By Nomad Tales

24http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37288101 Flexigel

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http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

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Search or browse – date, state, title

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Limit Results

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Show activity in results

RSS feeds

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Interaction at article level

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Fix text – power edit mode

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Show all corrections

Hall of Fame

Total of 17 million lines corrected July 2010

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User profile

Your settings and history

History

User Forum

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10,000 an hour

Trove activity in an average day

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1am 4am 7am 10am 1pm 4pm 7pm 10pm

Pageviews (mirrors searching and text correction activity)

August 2010: Searching peaks at 11,000 per hour, text correction at 9,000 lines per hour, average number of unique users per day is 10,000.

Family historians

Librarians

Recreational researchers

students

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Important• Connections• Linkages• Related• Context

• Sharing• Re-purposing• Mashing• Adding

Giving users

• Access to resources

• Tools to do stuff

• Freedom and choices

•Ways to work collaboratively together

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Trove: Future developments

1. Updating content – existing contributors

2. Expanding content – new contributors

3. Sharing content – API

4. Improving e-journal access and authentication

http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/marketing

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Trove dependant on…Collaboration across cultural heritage institutions

(digitisation, storage, service delivery, crowdsourcing, standards).

Data sharing

Being ‘open’ e.g. OAI, API’s

Changing institutional strategic thinking from power/control to freedom

New ideas and revisiting old ideas

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rholley@nla.gov.au

Harriet Rubin

Libraries need to think they are leading a mass

movement, not just serving a clientele…..

Charles Leadbeater

Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you

can unleash…